Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 17, 2007 @02:56PM from the talk-until-blue-in-the-face dept.

otakuj462 sends in an important followup to this morning's story on telecom immunity legislation. "Senator Chris Dodd won a temporary victory today after his threats of a filibuster forced Democratic leadership to push back consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance... [T]he threat of Dodd's filibuster... persuaded Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, to table the act until January. A compromise on the immunity will ostensibly be worked out in the interim period."

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Re:Now only by Tsiangkun · 2007-12-17 17:26 · Score: 1, Troll

Ron Paul believes government is not functional, and therefore is unlikely to be able to run a functional government.

Ron Paul wants to gut social programs people have worked hard over the last 50 years to get.

Ron Paul would want to abolish our dept of education(student loans), the IRS, dept of homeland security, FEMA, participation in the UN, participation in NATO, and contributions to unicef.

Ron Paul is no savior for this country, he is just another republican looking to weaken the government.